English dictionary · verb

transport

to take or carry from one place to another

Meaning and definitions

1. to take or carry from one place to another

Connected roots

• trans-

  across, through

• port-

  carrying

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These words share a recorded root connection. A shared root is a learning clue; it does not establish every step in a word’s history.

• transfer

  to move from one place to another

• export

  to send goods to another country for sale

• import

  to bring goods into a country from abroad

• transmit

  to cause to pass on from one place or person to another

• translucent

  allowing light to pass through partially

• portman

  A burgess of a port, especially of one of the Cinque Ports.

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